Neil Jackson Quotes
As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
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Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
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If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
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Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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I can have an androgynous quality.
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I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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The sensate body possesses an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis
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We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America.
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As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.
